Team Trump Mulling Deploying Military to Streets on Day 1 if Elected: Report
Team Trump Mulling Deploying Military to Streets on Day 1 if Elected: Report
The former president’s allies are developing a plan that would immediately deploy the military to the streets against potential demonstrators.
Already looking ahead to the turmoil his re-election could cause, Donald Trump and his allies are reportedly circling an idea to invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, deploying the military to act as domestic law enforcement.
According to a Washington Post report on Sunday, the drafting of such plans has largely been “unofficially outsourced” thus far to a coalition of right-wing think tanks working under the title “Project 2025.” It was identified as an immediate priority for the hypothetical resurrected Trump administration, internal communications obtained by the newspaper showed.
In response to questions from the Post, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung provided a statement: “President Trump is focused on crushing his opponents in the primary election and then going on to beat Crooked Joe Biden,” he said. “President Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution.”
I'm so sick of these treasonous jackals.
Better article on the topic IMO: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/conservatives-aim-to-restructure-u-s-government-and-replace-it-with-trumps-vision
Basically a conservative power fantasy
How to have large swathes of the military join the protestors, step 1.
People IMO VASTLY overestimate the popularity of the Republicans among the troops. It probably breaks about the same way as the general populace, and as far as being willing to follow orders to march against protestors, the troops that would do it are probably more worried about their own fellow soldiers turning on them than they are about being reprimanded for saying no.
And the guy called Cheung is behind that quote? Wake up sweety, you'd go into conc camps, just like asian-looking americans did while the ww2 was going on.
Good thing they sent a strong message to rioters that the consequences for storming the Capitol to overturn an election is... maybe a couple of years in prison maximum. I'm sure that's enough to dissuade Trump from trying again. He wouldn't want to hurt his supporters, would he? /s (every sentence)
They would have to do something about Posse Comitatus first.
"The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which removed the military from regular civil law enforcement, was enacted in response to the abuses resulting from the extensive use of the army in civil law enforcement during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. The Act allows legislated exceptions."
Trump was the exemplary student of "Escalation 101" at Dicks University.
I hate this fucking timeline so much. So many in the media seem to be working toward normalizing this obvious march into fascism, and pivoting to stupid horse race bullshit (the average voter thinks Biden is "too old" and so on).
If donnie "wins" the election (likely only the EC again) then this country is just so fucked. It's over at that point.
Vee heil, heil, right in der Führer's face.
No need to worry about world war 3 starting in the middle East if we start it right here in America.
I am not worried. All those good guys with a gun will protect me against government overreach.
Great minds have great ideas